Publications

I am working on a second book American Freedom: Slavery, Immigration and Movement about the effect of slavery on U.S. immigration and constitutional law.

My first book, The Immigration Battle in American Courts(Cambridge University Press 2010, paperback 2014) examines the role of the federal judiciary in immigration law. Congress and the President may pass immigration laws, but it is up to the federal courts to interpret and apply the laws, thereby making policy. It is also the evolutionary story of how the U.S. Courts of Appeals, the second most powerful courts in the land grew up alongside the Supreme Court.

“How the Internal Adjudicative Procedures of the Ninth Circuit Can Disadvantage Pro Se and Political Asylum Claimants” 25 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal647-679(Spring 2011)

“In Search of a Methodology and Other Tales from the Academic Crypt” in Researching Migration: Stories from the Field(Sherrie Kossoudji, Louis DeSipio, and Manuel Garcia y Griego, eds.) (New York: Social Science Research Council (2007)

“Race, Ethnicity, and National Origins in Public Policy¾When Should it Matter?” 10 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 71-76 (1996)